What video source files does Flash Video Encoder CS3 support?

Question

I can't find this anywhere on the web. I successfully converted an AVI to FLV, but the quality wasn't very good, but that is because the AVI isn't very good. So I ripped it again with higher quality into an m4v format. It took over an hour for a 12 minute video only to say this error at the end:
The operation could not be completed because an error occurred.
Is there a list somewhere of the source video files supported?
thanks a lot,
Justin

Answer 1

decibleXL wrote:
> Give him the best source material I can - exactly,
that's what I thought! I
> want to give him a TGA sequence that I create either
straight out of my 3D
> animation software or out of Premiere, but he always
tells me it's too big. He
> says it either crashes Flash, or the file size of the
FLV he creates using the
> TGAs is too big. The basic gist I'm getting from my
Flash guy is that the file
> size of the end product (the FLV) is directly effected
by the file size of the
> source material. I think that's why he's trying to get
me to give him stuff
> that's really small and compressed. The problem is that
in order to get it as
> small as he wants it, the quality takes a major hit.
There are options while converting to FLV to define the
quality, size etc...
This is where you impact on the final output. TGA might be
too large, try AVI or
MOV, tho again, the FLV converter is the one responsible for
the quality and size
of the final file.
> So I've got a TGA sequence that's 1.8GB. He told me that
was way too big for
> him to use.
It's too big :) Flash will die upon import of such file.
> So I processed the sequence using QuickTime pro into a
JPG sequence
> for him. The JPG sequence is 50MB. He tells me this is
STILL too big for him to
> use. Then he asks me for an AVI encoded with XVID. I
don't really feel like
> this is the right way to go, adding compression on top
of compression like
> that. But at the same time I don't know much about
Flash, so I'm not really
> inclined to argue with him.
>
> What do you guys think?
Try Mov or Avi
Btw. 50Mb it's not so big. If properly compressed, could be
very good quality and reasonable
size.
Best Regards
Urami
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